The Friday Fling Chases Thunderstorms With Ghazals!
Friday Fling #238 for June 28th 2013
Where I live we’ve recently experienced a run of late afternoon/early evening thunderstorms.
One each the past two nights with more predicted,
the second cutting my grandson’s final baseball game of the season in half.
So from this perspective it’s the perfect time to write about – thunderstorms!
Dark clouds, wind, rain, thunder, lightning!
A format which might lend itself well to your exposition on thunderstorms is the Ghazal.
As described on ShadowPoetry.com,
A Ghazal is a poem that is made up like an odd numbered chain of couplets, where each couplet is an independent poem.
It should be natural to put a comma at the end of the first line.
The Ghazal has a refrain of one to three words that repeat,
and an inline rhyme that preceedes the refrain.
Lines 1 and 2, then every second line, has this refrain and inline rhyme,
and the last couplet should refer to the authors pen-name… The rhyming scheme is AA bA cA dA eA etc. Such as:
THUNDERSTORMS REACTIVE
Thunderstorms are known for their electric lightning,
which when they appear cause eclectic brightening.
The light and the noise when they strike into the ground
can induce in all life much eccentric frightening.
Muscles contract in the fright of such loud reports,
which causes creatures to feel metric tightening.
Yet some folks are fascinated by storms’ power,
as though mesmerized into tantric heightening.
A few even chase thunderstorms to receive a thrill,
…though it might cause Scotorum pantric wettening.
Ghazal Copyright June 26th 2013 RGD
The only difficult part of a Ghazal is the repeating
(and perhaps slightly modified in the case of two or three repeated words)
end of the second lines in each stanza.
Note that use of this format is only recommended.
This week the Friday Fling muses on summer thunderstorms and tries out the Ghazal format to do so!
Be sure to save time to read and comment intensely on your fellow Pals’ thunderstorm brainstorm.
Then go enjoy a hopefully thunderstorm-free (or laden if that is something you enjoy) weekend!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for June 21st
Congratulations Michelle!
Welcome to the Friday Fling’s thunderstorm watch party! Pull up a modified inline rhyme and see what pours out of your muse Ghazalwise.
A form that is most definitely new to me. Will have to ponder. Looks fascinating though. Hoping everyone stays safe during the stormy weather in so many parts of the country. Congratulations to Michelle! :love: :love: :love:
THUNDERSTORMS ROLLING IN
~*~
In summer times when most thunderstorms are ruff
Lightin and rain but always follow with a drift
*
In this weather if you catch a cold you will cough up green
And it will make you trough fell very rough
*
You will surely not feel like a queen
Wind rain thunder and lightin always have its ruffs
*
These high wind are as ruff as they seen
Summer thunderstorms can but git very ruff
*
Dark clouds do always gives me the hewn
Thunder lightin high winds can put ones in the ruff
*
If not reform are turn these storms will so git kinda rough
And throw Bettie into a scary rushin runnin ruffs
~*~
Written By: Bettie Davis ———————————- © June 27 , 2o13
I love a thunderstorm during the late night,
Causing an eerie feeling as I await fright.
Lightning striking that flashes the dark room,
God’s magic wand with a sudden spate bright.
As a child I was told souls were bowling in heaven,
Visioning them behind the golden gate white.
The sound of thunder is eerie yet calming,
Sending me hauntingly thrills of elate delight.
So when the sound of thunder brews up in the distance
That’s when Michelle knows souls are striking with great sprite
Michelle Marko King
6-28-13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DE3e_hkBFo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST3aZTyctEg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9o78-f2mIM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCG3kJtQBKo
My daughter Sarah, when she was a toddler, wore a mitten hat to cover her ears. Then she felt safe to walk around the house and play during thunderstorms. If I was savvy in my scanning I would post a pic. Of course she won’t ever live that one down……HA!
Today the whole family, including Sarah’s husband and beautiful daughter, Avery, are going to the hospital dinner celebrating the end of her residency. She will be officially a “Family Physician”. I am so very proud of her. :love: :love: :love: :love: :love:
An earlier piece . . . .
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And trying a Ghazal . . . .
JUST TEMPORARY
Thunderstorms blaze a trail across a summer sky
as children try not to be afraid or cry.
Noses pressed against window panes in awe,
totally amazed at the sight and wondering how and why.
They know the storms will probably soon pass
and they will again play and the birds will fly.
It’s only a temporary summertime shower,
and soon the day will again be dry.
The thunderstorms will end soon
and Barbara will bake a strawberry pie.
(c) barbara kausteklis 6-28-13
These are all such wonderful pieces. I’ll be back in just a bit to comment individually. :love: :love: :love:
Thanks to all participants for making this challenge so successful under our current trying circumstances! :love: :love: :love: